PSK 149. Sermon — THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT — FIRE FROM ABOVE!
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*PSK 149. Sermon — THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT — FIRE FROM ABOVE!*
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🕊️ *CHRIST’S GOOD NEWS MISSION*
Sunday Worship Service — 12th July 2026.
📅 *Liturgical Day: 7th Sunday After Pentecost.*
📖 *Bible Lesson: Acts 2:1-21; Romans 8:9-17.*
✍️ Text: *_“But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”_* — Acts 1:8 (NKJV).
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*“THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: FIRE FROM ABOVE!” _—When Heaven’s Fire Falls Upon a Yielded Life, Nothing Remains the Same — Not the Person, Not the Community, Not the Nation._*
🎵 *OPENING HYMN: MHB. 386 — “O Thou Who Camest From Above”*
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1: O THOU Who camest from above
The pure celestial fire to impart,
Kindle a flame of sacred love
On the mean altar of my heart!
2: There let it for Thy glory burn
With inextinguishable blaze,
And trembling to its source return,
In humble prayer and fervent praise.
3: Jesus, confirm my heart’s desire
To work and speak and think for Thee;
Still let me guard the holy fire,
And still stir up Thy gift in me.
4: Ready for all Thy perfect will,
My acts of faith and love repeat,
Till death Thy endless mercies seal,
And make my sacrifice complete.
(Charles Wesley, 1762 — The supreme Wesleyan hymn of the Holy Spirit’s fire, drawn directly from the doctrine of entire sanctification and perfectly crowning this message of Pentecostal power.)
🙏✝️❤️🔥 *SEVEN PROPHETIC PRAYERS*
(Preparatory — Before the Exhortation)
❤️🔥 *Prayer 1 — _The Promise of the Father_*
Title: Heaven’s Greatest Gift Received.
_“And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father.”_ — Acts 1:4 (NKJV).
*_Father of all promises, let every soul in this congregation receive afresh the Promise of the Father today! Let no believer leave this service operating below the level of Holy Ghost empowerment that Christ purchased and heaven released on the day of Pentecost, in Jesus’ Name. Amen!_* ❤️🔥
❤️🔥 *Prayer 2 — _Fire From Above._*
Title: Tongues of Fire Upon Every Head.
_“Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them.”_ — Acts 2:3 (NKJV).
*_Holy Spirit, let tongues of fire descend afresh upon every head in this sanctuary today! Burn away every impurity, every coldness, every spiritual mediocrity — and ignite a blaze of consecrated, heaven-sent fire that transforms this congregation from the inside out, in Jesus’ Name. Amen!_* ❤️🔥
❤️🔥 *Prayer 3 — _Filled With the Spirit_*
Title: Overflow, Not Merely a Portion.
_“And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.”_ — Acts 2:4 (NKJV).
*_Lord Jesus, fill every yielded vessel in this congregation to absolute overflowing with the Holy Spirit today! Not a portion, not a trickle — but the full, rushing, mighty, transforming flood of heaven’s own presence, in Jesus’ Name. Amen!_* ❤️🔥
❤️🔥 Prayer 4 — *Power to Witness*
Title: Bold Witnesses in a Dark World.
_“But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me.”_ — Acts 1:8 (NKJV).
*_Empowering God, release supernatural boldness upon every silent, timid, and fearful witness in this congregation! Let the power of the Holy Spirit transform every shrinking believer into a fearless, flame-carrying ambassador of the Risen Christ, in Jesus’ Name. Amen!_* ❤️🔥
❤️🔥 *Prayer 5 — _The Spirit of Adoption_*
Title: Sons and Daughters of the Living God.
_“For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, ‘Abba, Father.'”_ — Romans 8:15 (NKJV).
*_Abba Father, let the Spirit of adoption cry out with full authority from within every believer in this assembly! Break every spirit of bondage, every orphan mentality, every religious fear — and establish every soul in the glorious liberty of sons and daughters of the Most High, in Jesus’ Name. Amen!_* ❤️🔥
❤️🔥 *Prayer 6 — _The Spirit Intercedes_*
Title: Praying Beyond Our Own Ability.
_“Likewise, the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.”_ — Romans 8:26 (NKJV).
*_Interceding Spirit, take over the prayer lives of every believer in this congregation! Where we have prayed shallowly, deepen us. Where we have prayed weakly, strengthen us. Where words have failed, let the Spirit’s own intercession arise with holy, irresistible authority, in Jesus’ Name. Amen!_* ❤️🔥
❤️🔥 *Prayer 7 — _Stirring Up the Gift_*
Title: Every Dormant Gift Awakened.
_“Therefore, I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.”_ — 2 Timothy 1:6 (NKJV).
*_Holy Spirit, stir up every dormant, neglected, and buried gift in this congregation today! Let no talent lie unused, no calling lie unfulfilled, no anointing lie not activated — but let the fire of God awaken every gift to its full, glorious, kingdom purpose, in Jesus’ Name. Amen!_* ❤️🔥
✝️❤️🔥🦅 *EXHORTATION* 👑❤️🔥
✝️❤️🔥🦅 Theme: *“THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: FIRE FROM ABOVE — _When Heaven’s Fire Falls Upon a Yielded Life, Nothing Remains the Same — Not the Person, Not the Community, Not the Nation!“_* 👑❤️🔥
📖 *Bible Lesson:* Acts 2:1-21; Romans 8:9-17 (NKJV)
📅 *Liturgical Day: 7th Sunday After Pentecost* — 12th July 2026.
✍️ Text: *_“But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”_* — Acts 1:8 (NKJV).
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On 8th October 1871, a small fire broke out in a barn on the outskirts of Chicago. Within hours, it had consumed an entire city — three hundred lives lost, seventeen thousand buildings destroyed, one hundred thousand people left homeless. The Great Chicago Fire became one of the most dramatic illustrations in American history of what uncontained, unstoppable fire can accomplish. What began as a single flame in one obscure location transformed an entire metropolis — permanently and irrevocably.
Beloved, on the day of Pentecost — fifty days after resurrection morning — a fire far greater than Chicago’s broke out in an upper room in Jerusalem. One hundred and twenty yielded, praying, expectant believers sat together, and suddenly heaven opened. *_“And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting”_* (Acts 2:2, NKJV). Tongues of fire descended. Every head was crowned with heaven’s flame. And nothing — absolutely nothing — was ever the same again.
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*The Nature of the Fire: Power, Not Performance*
Jesus was devastatingly precise in His final instructions: *_“tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high”_* (Luke 24:49, NKJV). The disciples were not told to strategise, organise, or publicise — they were told to wait. The Holy Spirit is not a programme to be implemented. He is a Person to be received. And when He comes, He does not merely improve existing human ability — He imparts a quality of divine power that human effort can never replicate. *_“Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord”_* (Zechariah 4:6, NKJV).
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*The Evidence of the Fire: Transformation, Not Sensation*
Peter — who had denied Christ three times beside a cold fire — now stood before thousands beside heaven’s fire and preached with such devastating authority that three thousand souls surrendered to Christ in a single morning (Acts 2:41). The fire did not merely make him emotional. It made him effective. This is the perpetual evidence of genuine Holy Spirit empowerment — not spectacular sensation alone, but lives permanently transformed, communities visibly impacted, and the Kingdom of God demonstrably advanced.
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*The Demand of the Fire: Yield, Not Perform*
Romans 8 presents the Spirit-filled life not as an occasional experience but as a permanent condition of every genuine believer. “You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you” (Romans 8:9, NKJV). The fire of God does not fall on performance — it falls on “yieldedness”. Empty vessels. Surrendered wills. Hungry hearts. Praying congregations.
Beloved, the same fire that fell in Jerusalem is available today. The same Spirit Who transformed frightened fishermen into world-changing apostles is present in this sanctuary right now. Chicago’s fire destroyed a city. Pentecost’s fire built one — and the fire is still burning in Christ’s Good News Mission today! 👑
Yield. Open. Receive. And let the fire fall!
*_“If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”_* — Luke 11:13 (NKJV). ✝️❤️🔥🦅
🙏✝️❤️🔥 *SEVEN INTERCESSORY PRAYERS*
(Post-Exhortation — Prophetic Charismatic Warfare)
❤️🔥 *Prayer 8 — _For the Spiritually Cold_*
Title: Every Spirit of Lukewarmness Consumed by Fire.
_“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot.”_ — Revelation 3:15 (NKJV).
*_My Father, My God — we take violent authority over every spirit of lukewarmness, spiritual coldness, and religious mediocrity suffocating the fire of God in this congregation! We command that cold, dead, religious spirit to be consumed by Holy Ghost fire RIGHT NOW! Let the blaze of first love arise from the ashes of routine — burning unquenchable, unstoppable, and irresistible, in Jesus’ Name. Amen!_* ❤️🔥
❤️🔥 *Prayer 9 — _For the Timid Witnesses_*
Title: Every Spirit of Fear Destroyed, Boldness Released.
_“For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”_ — 2 Timothy 1:7 (NKJV).
*_Mighty God, we pull down every stronghold of timidity, shame, and silence assigned against the witnesses in this congregation! We destroy the spirit of fear by Holy Ghost fire — right now — and we decree that supernatural boldness is released upon every believer who has been silent too long! Arise, witnesses of the Risen Christ — your voice is a weapon, and the enemy cannot silence it, in Jesus’ Name. Amen!_* ❤️🔥
❤️🔥 *Prayer 10 — _For the Unsaved: Fire That Convicts_*
Title: Every Hardened Heart Pierced and Broken Open.
_“And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgement.”_ — John 16:8 (NKJV).
*_My Father, My God — release the convicting fire of the Holy Spirit upon every unsaved, backslidden, and hardened soul connected to this congregation! We pull down every stronghold of pride, rebellion, and spiritual blindness by the blood of Jesus! Let the same piercing, irresistible conviction that broke three thousand hearts at Pentecost fall upon every resistant soul — and let them cry out for salvation, in Jesus’ Name. Amen!_* ❤️🔥
❤️🔥 *Prayer 11 — _For the Ministers of the Gospel_*
Title: Every Cold Pulpit Set Ablaze by Heaven’s Fire.
_“Who makes His angels spirits and His ministers a flame of fire.”_ — Hebrews 1:7 (NKJV).
*_Lord of the harvest, we decree that every minister, preacher, teacher, and worker of Christ’s Good News Mission is a flame of fire — not a flickering candle but a consuming blaze! We destroy every spirit of ministerial burnout, discouragement, and prayerlessness by Holy Ghost fire right now! Let no pulpit in this fellowship be cold, no ministry be mechanical, and no servant operate in mere human strength — but let every worker burn with heaven’s unquenchable flame, in Jesus’ Name. Amen!_* ❤️🔥
❤️🔥 *Prayer 12 — _For Nigeria: Pentecost Over a Nation in Crisis_*
Title: Every Satanic Stronghold Over Nigeria Burned to Ashes.
_“If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven.”_ — 2 Chronicles 7:14 (NKJV).
*_My Father, My God — we stand as Your fire-baptised Church, and we pull down every principality of corruption, terrorism, and national decay over Nigeria! We command the strongholds of Abuja, Lagos, the North, the South, the East, and the West to bow before the fire of the Holy Ghost! Send revival across this nation, Lord — consuming every darkness, burning every stronghold, and transforming Nigeria with the same irresistible Pentecostal fire that transformed Jerusalem, in Jesus’ Name. Amen!_* ❤️🔥
❤️🔥 *Prayer 13 — _For Christ’s Good News Mission: A Perpetual Pentecost_*
Title: This House Established as an Unquenchable Upper Room.
_“And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.”_ — Acts 2:42 (NKJV).
*_Lord Jesus, we decree that Christ’s Good News Mission is a perpetual upper room — an unquenchable fire that no devil can extinguish, no persecution can scatter, and no opposition can silence! We pull down every satanic assignment against this ministry’s unity, growth, and anointing — consumed by Holy Ghost fire right now! Let every service be a Pentecost, every gathering an encounter, and every departure a commissioning of fire-carrying witnesses, in Jesus’ Name. Amen!_* ❤️🔥
❤️🔥 *Prayer 14 — _The Warfare Benediction_*
Title: Sent Out as Flames Into a Dark and Dying World.
_“Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.”_ — Romans 15:13 (NKJV).
*_My Father, My God — seal every soul departing this sanctuary today with the abounding, overflowing, world-transforming fire of the Holy Spirit! We decree that they carry the flame of Pentecost into every home, every street, every workplace, and every sphere of influence — burning brightly, burning boldly, and burning unquenchably for Your glory! Let the world see their fire and know — these people have been with Jesus! In Jesus’ mighty Name. Amen!_* ❤️🔥
🎵 *CLOSING HYMN: MHB. 292 — _“COME, Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove”_*
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1: COME, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove,
With all Thy quickening powers;
Kindle a flame of sacred love
In these cold hearts of ours.
2: In vain we tune our formal songs,
In vain we strive to rise;
Hosannas languish on our tongues,
And our devotion dies.
3: And shall we then for ever live
At this poor dying rate?
Our love so faint, so cold to Thee,
And Thine to us so great!
4: Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove,
With all Thy quickening powers;
Come, shed abroad the Saviour’s love,
And that shall kindle ours. Amen.
(Isaac Watts, 1707 — A magnificent and deeply personal hymn of surrender to the Holy Spirit, perfectly sealing this message of Holy Ghost fire with a consecrated, yielded heart’s response. Often set to the tune MANCHESTER, composed by the English Organist and composer Robert Wainwright (1748- 1782).
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✝️❤️🔥🦅 Rt. Rev. Dr Michael A. Fẹ́mi-Adébánjọ
Acting Patriarch — Christ’s Good News Mission
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